WATER VALLEY – There was a strong turnout for Saturday’s grand opening for three new businesses on South Main Street in Water Valley. Main Street Fitness, Down Range Outdoors and Water Valley Nutrition are owned and operated by brothers and business partners Stephen Wood and Craig Swanner. The three businesses occupy one of three new…

WATER VALLEY – Two Water Valley men were arrested Thursday following an 18-month investigation into the 2020 highway shooting that claimed the life of 27 year-old Barney Edward Frost, Jr. Yalobusha County Sheriff Jerimaine Gooch reported Jarvis Roberson and Geraldo Roberson were each indicted for first degree murder (deliberate design) during the Sept. 30 grand…

WATER VALLEY – The BorgWarner CEO Safety Excellence Award was presented to the Water Valley plant after employees recorded one million hours without a recordable incident. The presentation was made last Wednesday as top corporate officials from the global company traveled to Water Valley to congratulate plant manager Ray Robertson and employees. The presentation marked…

WATER VALLEY – Over 80 artists ranging from age eight to 80 will have work on display in the 13th Annual Art Crawl that runs from Thursday to Nov. 7. Sponsored by the Water Valley Arts Council, the Crawl includes 21 storefront window installations in a walkable route that starts at the Person residence at…

  GUMS CROSSING – The price tag for the most expensive project ever awarded by the Board of Supervisors in Yalobusha County got a little more pricey this week. In February supervisors awarded a $16.24 million bid to replace the Gums Crossing Bridge on County Road 221. On Monday supervisors approved the extra work that…

Whether the information is about the suspicious death of a woman found deceased inside her burned mobile home just after Christmas last year, or an elderly man brutally beaten and killed in his home on Calhoun Street in Water Valley in 2009, the Yalobusha County Crime Stoppers is offering big bucks for information about unsolved…

WATER VALLEY – An intense weekend search for a missing Coffeeville man and his red Volkswagen convertible ended Sunday around 2:30 p.m. after the vehicle was discovered on Hwy. 32 between Oakland and Water Valley. A deep gully and mounds of kudzu had obscured the vehicle, making it extremely difficult to spot from the air…

WATER VALLEY – A new wrinkle has surfaced in a bizarre string of criminal cases for crimes and alleged crimes involving the same defendant.  Kendrick Scott, the man convicted of robbing the same convenience store in Water Valley twice and accused of the heinous double murder of Richard Dicken and Jennifer Nault last year, has…